XML Entity for "/"?
The forward slash is valid as is and does not need further encoding.
The only reserved characters are:
><&%For even more XML entities - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
I know it turned out this wasn't the problem, but I thought it would be helpful to mention that, in addition to bobince's answer, the Fraction Slash HTML entity ⁄ looks just like a forward slash. Just in case anybody reaching this page actually does want an HTML entity for something representing a forward slash.
I don't think the comments in this thread are entirely correct since if you use a schema (XSD) you could define elements with names Jim, Bob and Jim/Bob without any issues. But then when you want to define the element and entity:
<names> <Jim>Carrey</Jim> <Bob>Jones</Bob> <Jim/Bob>Six figured Hillbilly</Jim/Bob></names>The problems are obvious.